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by dandare 5y ago
Maybe it is just me but I never use chatbots and I don't understand why anyone would. For everything I want to do there should be an UI that is much easier to use than explaining it, even to a human. For help and troubleshooting chatbo
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by dandare 5y ago
That is the correct think to do. Remember, never be loyal to your company because a company CANNOT be loyal to you. (You can be loyal to a good boss though.)
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by dandare 5y ago
To me it sounds less morally consistent. It says they are against slavery on the paper but will not do anything concrete to avoid profiting from slave labour in practice.
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by dandare 5y ago
> race-based wage/earnings disparities in the labor market Is there an adjusted race wage gap similar to adjusted gender pay gap? By adjusted I mean for the same work on the same position. This Wikipedia article does not mention any
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by dandare 5y ago
My favourite feature of English grammar is the Garden path sentence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence#Examples Bonus: There is the secret adjective order rule that most native english speakers have no
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by dandare 5y ago
> It started off excluding women and people of color... While true, this is irrelevant - because that was the general condition back then - and only deludes the argument.
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by dandare 5y ago
Is Privacy Badger affected as well? (how is Privacy Badger different from uBlock?)
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by dandare 5y ago
Other "out-of-place" artifacts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-place_artifact
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Ask HN: Are you allowed to configure Jira to suit your team's needs?
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by dandare 5y ago
I am ok doing waterfall - what I can't stand is doing waterfall dressed as agile&scrum. Agile&scrum are internally inconsistent methodologies which means that a bad faith actor (be it a smart but asshole engineer or clueless bo
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by dandare 5y ago
Sorry if that was not clear, my wife and I live on the same address in the same country. Her billing address is same as mine. I checked the net and Google product forums for possible solutions, checked the billing address, Play store settin
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by dandare 5y ago
> I am a paid Youtube Music subscriber The saying goes that if you don't paid for it then you are the product. So I subscribed to YouTube Music family plan, thinking I won't be the product. But my wife's account will alway
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by dandare 5y ago
With a free software like this I am always wondering what is the business model, how do they make money?
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by dandare 5y ago
I am not sure, I googled https://www.google.com/search?q=%22permissive+uncertainty%22 and most of the top results refer back to this paper or similar website talking about bullshitry. But maybe I am wrong and this is a real
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by dandare 5y ago
Almost every top management memo be like (random snippets from my inbox): > "I’d like to echo XXX’s sentiments about the opportunities this organizational change creates.." > "YYY has been integral to the growth and suc
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by dandare 5y ago
The paper itself, 4th paragraph of the Introduction chapter: > speech community [...] conceptual entrepreneurs [...] noisy ignorance [...] permissive uncertainty [...] surface-level agreement Am I uneducated or is the author trolling?
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by dandare 5y ago
How do you disable your old phones especially those those that do not work (due to shattered screen mostly) before giving them up for recycling or buyback? I am always worried someone will fix and misuse my old phone.
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by dandare 5y ago
As a non American, I think COINTELPRO is the single most anti-democratic abuse of power ever done by US government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO#Range_of_targets https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by dandare 5y ago
Excuse me, I have been living under a rock lately, has there been a breakthrough in blockchain's utility I missed? Other than money laundering and an investment bubble?
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by dandare 5y ago
A) how much are the transaction fees in yhe first place? B) I remember being charged an extra buck when I choose a credit card as my payment method. Why couldn't retailers just do this?
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by dandare 5y ago
IMHO Organic food is a fraud by definition. You are still expected to use pesticides, but only the "natural" ones, which are less effective, so you end up applying more poison to a crop than non-organic farmer. Oh, and farmers are
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by dandare 5y ago
I don't know why I have Curtis connected with Arundhati Roy and her Come September speech, and this little documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70L_3RrP6-8&list=PLdwCuEoZ_6...
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by dandare 5y ago
That's what Archaea said too :)
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by dandare 5y ago
> Mitochondrial DNA seems to be passed down from generation to generation exclusively by the mother; sperm contributes nothing How do mitochondria evolve if they are just clones passed down from mothers? Or rather, how come there are not
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by dandare 5y ago
> Batavia shipwreck reveals a key to Dutch success in 17th-century world trade And the key to success was posting clickbait headlines to Hacker News?
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by dandare 5y ago
Are you sure it is a partisan issue? From what I know many progressives see any kind of sex work as exploitation of women.
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by dandare 5y ago
> Some use your data in ad networks, push promoted content or use other invasive methods to fund their development. We don’t. "We don’t - directly. Instead we make deals with search engines and bookmark partners who's business
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by dandare 5y ago
You are wrong in a very classical, meaning half of earthlings believe this misconception. Trade can make both sides richer. Some would say any voluntary trade makes both sides richer, but that depends on your definition of voluntarism and e
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by dandare 5y ago
Also capital (aka delayed consumption) creates value, under specific circumstances.
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by dandare 5y ago
Trade creates value and not just in the way of moving things. The law of comparative advantages is mind blowing once you understand it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage#Ricardo'... .

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